Sentences with phrase «traditional religious values»

Must we either return to traditional religious values and authority, or slide into moral relativism and nihilism?

Traditional religious values, such as justice and charity, are now viewed as liberal and secular.

Of course, it would be an exaggeration to think that traditional religious values, such as justice and charity for the poor, have completely lost their hold.

Yet the very dissension that has been produced by the religious right points up the difficulties of gaining any kind of broad consensus on the basis of traditional religious values.

One response to this movement rooted in «traditional religious values» would be to dismiss it as a return to the Know - Nothing populism of the 19th century.

Television makes the secular alternatives to traditional religious values seem tremendously appealing.

Religious people have feared the media especially because the media threaten traditional religious values and beliefs.

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

Not exact matches

Only a fully observant and theologically Orthodox medical school would train and nurture truly religious and traditional physicians whose medical practice expresses the humanistic values of the tradition.

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

Even putting aside our deep - seated commitment to the principle of religious liberty in general, we believe that enactment of RFRA is of particular importance» practical, nonspeculative, immediate, legal importance» to the pro-life, traditional values movement.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxy and the revival of traditional religious supernaturalism and institutionalism are further evidences of the struggle for reassurance in an age of disintegrated values.

But either way, convictional Christians will increasingly see they are not the moral majority and will advocate less for the legislation or traditional values and be more focused on protecting religious liberty.»

These theses suggest a few key features that secular and religious supporters of traditional values share.

If Christians and others with religious concern expect to contribute to this redefinition of goals and values, then they will have to go beyond expressing those goals and values in terms of the traditional forms of provincial and protected truths.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

Part of Bush's strategy was to promote a national moral restoration by holding out his parents and the Bush clan as exemplars of traditional values and religious commitment.

Frank and Greenberg suggest that their heavy viewing of religious programs probably helps to satisfy their needs for support and contact and reinforcement of the more traditional values associated with American life.

When young people grow up in a more or less homogeneous society, where parents, religious leaders, and schools all confidently communicate traditional values, they may rebel to some extent, but they are also likely to assimilate much of the tradition.

Even if one of the traditional religious communities dominates the culture, it is now likely to be in competition with values stemming from the European Enlightenment — what I called scientific humanism.

Although I want to discuss the role of comprehensive systems of value and ways of life in education, my perspective is that of one formed in a traditional religious community.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has challenged traditional rulers and religious leaders to wake up to their responsibility of restoring moral values and discipline among the youth.

Cultural values of many tropical island communities (e.g., religious sites and traditional uses of marine resources) depend upon healthy coral reef ecosystems and can be adversely affected by coral bleaching.

Though not religious in a traditional sense, there is significant financial and metaphysical value placed on contemporary art, and its ownership grants power via social status and prestige.